Balak Sends for Balaam

22 (A)Then the sons of Israel journeyed, and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho.

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The Sin of Peor

25 While Israel remained at (A)Shittim, the people began (B)to play the harlot with the daughters of Moab. For (C)they invited the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.

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“Let the [a]outcasts of Moab stay with you;
Be a hiding place to them from the destroyer.”
For the extortioner has come to an end, destruction has ceased,
(A)Oppressors have completely disappeared from the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 16:4 So the versions; M.T. My outcasts, as for Moab

26 Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and (A)all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are (B)uncircumcised of heart.”

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